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Pumping Mississippi River water west: solution or pipe dream?

Summary by Ground News

Waves of rainfall drenched California into the new year. Snowpacks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains have swelled to more than 200% their normal size. But scientists and water policy experts warn against claiming victory. About 60% of the region remains in some form of drought, continuing a decades-long spiral into water scarcity.

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Kingman Miner

Center

Pumping Mississippi River water west?

Waves of torrential rainfall drenched California into the new year. Snowpacks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains have swelled to more than 200% their normal size, and snowfall across the rest of the Colorado River Basin is trending above average, too.

4 years ago

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Star Tribune

Lean Left

Pumping Mississippi River water west: solution or pipe dream?

One proposed solution to the Colorado River Basin's water scarcity crisis has come up again and again: large-scale river diversions, including pumping Mississippi River water to the parched West.

4 years ago·Minneapolis, United States

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